FC: Kevin Poulsen reports on "HERFgun" demo'd at InfoWarCon

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kevin Poulsen <klp () well com>
> To: declan () well com
> Subject: Fear the Reaper
>
>
> Zap! ... and your PC's dead
>
> Ex-Navy engineer David Schriner demos his homemade, bargain-basement,
> computer-killing 'gun.'
>
> WASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store, saboteurs can
> build a device capable of disrupting computers, automobiles, medical
> equipment and nearly anything else dependant on electronics, according to 
> a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray at
> the InfowarCon '99 Conference here Wednesday.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html



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